Sigmar Polke is one of the world's most revered and influential contemporary artists. This book documents Polke's contemporary work, which continues and deepens the artist's famed explorations of how images are made, used, and thought about in our media-dominated culture. The works also pose intriguing questions about how the eye and mind become ...
This is a record of a Tate Gallery Liverpool critical forum held in conjunction with an exhibition entitled "Sigmar Polke: Join the Dots", which was held at the gallery from January to April 1995, on the German artist's work and his relationships to European and American avant-gardes from the mid-1960s. The book presents a number of critiques ...
One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) came of age creatively around 1963 in Dusseldorf. His earliest expressive idiom was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar ...
Since 1967, Sigmar Polke had created about 150 editions -- a broad range of works that by turns paraphrase and experiment with his idiosyncratic oeuvre. This publication, which collects all of his editions together for the first time, is therefore not merely an afterthought -- instead it provides a direct, central approach to the artist's work ...
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